...Perl subroutines don't have a lot of historical cruft to get rid of. In fact, the basic problem with Perl 5's subroutines is that they're not crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by the Conservation of Cruft Principle. Perl 6 will let you migrate the cruft out of the user-defined code and back into the declarations where it belongs. Then you will think it to be very beautiful cruft indeed (we hope).
In the mess hall, soldiers bound for the field gorge themselves on ice cream and doughnuts, not so much for the culinary pleasure but rather to stockpile memories.
http_proxy
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hooks to Net::Blogger now too...